40th Anniversary of Meeting, And Still Wondering What We’ll Do Next 💕

Sheila and Adan circa 1981

Today Sheila and I celebrate 40 years since the day we first met, sneaking glances at each other (though I think I was the more blatant 😊 ) at the start of a two week 8-5 training for new jobs we had with the state ❤️

We’re celebrating by driving south of Austin to the doctor (cause it’s faster than going to the office 3x closer to home in Austin itself, lol!). A little vertigo check up is all.

So that’s a part, a good part really, of celebrating 40 years with a dr appt – we’ve each other to help take care of ourselves. I’ve been driving her around for over a week, like she drove me around for weeks following my 2 surgeries.

“Anything that initially catches our attention is a good place to start. I pointed out how the light rays are striking those upper center flowers and the shadows of the two on the outside. So let’s start there.“ – Dianne Mize

Finally forcing myself to start updating my original paintings catalog of works on Fine Art America, lol! Many, like Starburst Bloom, are in both my general painting gallery and my floral gallery, which itself includes both photography and art work.

Resting Up From Too Much Exertion, lol 😊
We had a rare patch of extremely nice weather for nearly a week here in Central Texas recently (now heading to near then above 100-107 next 10 days!) and I literally immersed myself in long fresh air walks and extra live online yoga and balance classes and two days ago could hardly move! 😂

Easy Morning, new watercolor on absorbent ground
6×6 gallery wrap canvas
#figureart
My newest figure work had the usual tug and pull process painting it 😊
I really like the soft gentle feel of it, and especially like the look my wife got seeing it ❤️

At Peace With Nature has several firsts for me.
One, it’s a 5×7 stretched canvas, another size like my recent 6×12, A Walk Among the Wildflowers, I haven’t done in quite awhile, certainly even further back by maybe even decades, lol! It’s an interesting size, being small, yet enabling and enhancing the sense of length or height, like the 6×12, but more subtly.

Personal Transitions During Stay-at-Home Distancing
No BIG in the typical sense of what I tend to think “big” life change/transitions are, but with no blog post for 5 or 6 days, I gave up figuring out the exact # of days, lol, I felt compelled to say a little something.

Ahhh, young love! Happy anniversary you two! I love that photo, you make a cute couple! You are like us, lots of big milestones in 2020, my 50th and our 10 year wedding anniversary, so much to celebrate!

Then we must for sure make 2020 a creative journey year to also remember! 💕 We’ll hit our 39th wedding anniversary later this year (Sheila seems very excited about #40 next year 😊), and I hit 70! I hope ya’ll have grand days on your 50th & ya’ll’s 10th, Tiffany! Very neat!

It was beyond superb, Dolly! The Masterpiece production was 4 one hour segments and neither my wife nor I wanted it to end; I really need to do even if just a short review post for it; I was stunned by the quality and pacing & issues covered!

I think, if Roku (not familiar usage-wise with it) has access to PBS & Masterpiece, you should be able to pick it up within their library; let me check Amazon – yeah, if you have Prime (and even if you don’t they offer some other options), try here – https://amzn.to/389fN7K 😊 Yeah, I was trying to decide what to work up next for a post, about my new fixative image spray, or another finished painting, or my recent goof up of a pix, lol! But really, Howard’s End haunts me right now, so maybe that 😊

We do have Amazon Prime, but I am not sure Roku is compatible with it. Thank you for the link, though!
I am techno-idiot, so all I know is that Roku is a tiny attachment ($14.99 – would you believe it?) that turns a TV screen into a moderately smart TV by connecting wirelessly to the router. It has a huge selection of channels, most of them paid, but some are free. Mostly, it allows us to pull up what we want to watch on YouTube, especially Russian films, concerts, and other programming. We do not watch (and do not have) regular TV.
Have a great day, Felipe!

I read, long ago, it was the best system around, the least restrictive, but we have Prime so we get so much it keeps us busy ‘tween being busy, lol! Can u search in Roku? Oh, worked in my review today! 😊